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" To be of no church is dangerous. Religion, of which the rewards are distant, and which is animated only by faith and hope, will glide by degrees out of the mind, unless it be invigorated and reimpressed by external ordinances, by stated calls to worship,... "
Prefaces, Biographical and Critical, to the Works of the English Poets ... - Page 120
by Samuel Johnson - 1779
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The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.

Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1820 - 476 pages
...the Church of England. To be of no church is dangerous. Religion, of which the rewards are distant, and which is animated only by faith and hope, will glide by degrees out of the mind, unless it be invigorated and reimpressed by external ordinances, by stated calls to worship, and the...
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The Religious Tradesman, Or Plain and Serious Hints of Advice for the ...

Richard Steele - 1823 - 334 pages
...yourselves in the way of good. " Religion," says a great authority, " of which the rewards are distant, and which is animated only by faith and hope, will glide by degrees out of the mind, unless it be invigorated and re-impressed by external ordinances, by stated calls to worship, and the...
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The Pamphleteer, Volume 25

1825 - 546 pages
...often enforced, that, "To be of no church is dangerous : religion, of which the rewards are distant, and which is animated only by faith and hope, will glide by degrees out of the mind, unless it be invigorated by external ordinances, by stated calls to worship, and the salutary influence...
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The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: With Murphy's Essay, Volume 3

Samuel Johnson - 1825 - 674 pages
...the Church of England. To be of no Church is dangerous. Religion, of which * the rewards are distant, and which is animated only by Faith and Hope, will glide by degrees out of the mind, unless it be invigorated and reimpressed by external ordinances, by stated calls to worship, and the...
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The Pamphleteer, Volume 25

Abraham John Valpy - 1825 - 544 pages
...enamel of 'virtue'," and that pregnant sentence of Johnson's cannot be too often enforced, that, " To be of no church is dangerous : religion, of which the rewards are distant, and which is animated only by faith and hope, will glide by degrees out of the mind, unless...
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The Lives of the English Poets, Volume 1

Samuel Johnson - 1826 - 430 pages
...the church of England. To be of no church is dangerous. Religion, of which the rewards are distant, and which is animated only by faith and hope, will glide by degrees out of the mind, unless it be invigorated and reimpressed by external ordinances, by stated calls to worship, and the...
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The Quarterly Theological Review and Ecclesiastical Record, Volume 3

1826 - 576 pages
...imaginative invention: "To be of no Church is dangerous. Religion, of which the rewards are distant, and which is animated only by faith and hope, will glide by degrees out of the mind, unless it be invigorated and reimpressed by external ordinances, bv stated calls to worship, and the...
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Some account of the life and writings of John Milton

Henry John Todd - 1826 - 458 pages
...fine remark ; that " e to be of no church is dangerous. Religion, of which the re* wards are distant, and which is animated only by faith and hope, will glide by degrees out of the mind> unless it be invigorated and reimpressed by external ordinances, by stated calls to worship, and the...
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The Quarterly Theological Review and Ecclesiastical Record, Volume 3

1826 - 590 pages
...superior to Milton in gigantic force of intellect, as he was below him in imaginative invention : " To be of no Church is dangerous. Religion, of which the rewards are distant, and which is animated only by faith and hope, will glide by degrees out of the mind, unless...
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Some Account of the Life and Writings of John Milton: Derived ..., Volume 6

Henry John Todd - 1826 - 460 pages
...• notions of the external services of religion Dr. Johnson has opposed this fine remark ; that " e to be of no church is dangerous. Religion, of which the rewards are distant, and which is animated only by faith and hope, will glide by degrees out of the mind, unless...
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